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Article #114: 5 Tips For Catching Errors in Your Writing

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Imagine receiving boxes of books from the manuscript backwards, your book becomes
printer or publisher only to discover a just a collection of words, and those
glaring typo. After countless hours of mistakes literally jump off the page.
editing, revising, and proofing, how did 4 - Read your manuscript out loud.
it get by? When you are forced to say the words out
No matter what editing procedures you loud, your brain is forced to slow down
undertake, mistakes can happen. So how do and concentrate on the material. Bonus -
you prevent errors before they wind up in you may discover stumbling blocks like
your book? Read on... awkward sentence structures and choppy
1 - Employ an editing service. dialogue.
The most common mistakes are minor, for 5 - Use the right kind of publisher.
example incorrect word use (their, What do you do when that 5,000 print run
they're, there) and simple misspellings. costs $10,000 and features a grave error
2 - Get a second (and third) set of eyes. that cannot be dismissed? Your best
Even if you don't wish to pay a recourse upon discovering an error is
professional, anyone who reviews your typically a sticker and a sense of humor.
document will find mistakes you But an on-demand publisher that allows
invariably miss. It is a function of the you to revise your book after publication
brain called "cerbrainiumitis." Okay, (for a reasonable fee) means you are
okay, that term is made-up -- but the never stuck with your blunders.by Brent
truth is, you're much more familiar with Sampson
your manuscript than anyone else, and as Brent Sampson is the President & CEO of
a result, apt to miss obvious mistakes Outskirts Press at where the future of
simply because your eyes glaze over them. publishing is here, today. He is the
3 - Read your manuscript backwards. award-winning author of "Publishing Gems:
Reading material backwards is the Insider Information for the
antidote to "cerbrainiumitis" because a Self-Publishing Writer" and
critical view of the English language "Self-Publishing Simplified" which is
cannot be corrupted by the flowing available on Amazon for an unbelievably
exposition you have massaged into low $5.
sparkling prose. When you read your






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